Sand-band



(NoModeL) v I E. s. SUTTON.

SAND BAND. A No. 2 3,301. Patented Aug. 14, 1883.

WITNESSES V lNVENTOR V V ATTORNEYS u. PETERS. mwmm w. Walhingion, D. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE EUGENE sILAssuTToN, on MENoMoNEE, WISCONSIN.

SAND-BAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.,283,301, datedAugust14, 1883.

Application filed inamh 10, 1883. (NojmodelJ.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that ,I, EUGENE S. SUTTON, a citizen of the United States,and a resident at Menomonee', in the county of Dunn andState ofWisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSand-Bands; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled inthe art to which it appertains to make and usethe same, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or. figures ofreference marked thereon, which form apart of this specification. I

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of 'a partial longitudinalsection. illustrating this invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view ofthe conical sand-band. Fig. 3 isa sectional view of the sand-band.

This invention has relation to sand-bands for the hubs ofvehicle-wheels; and it consists in the construction and novelarrangement, in connection with a collar-band on the back end of thehub, having its rim-wall projecting beyond said back end, of aeonically-fiaring sandband, having its small end seated within theprojecting portion of the collar-band in close engagement with the rimthereof, and secured to the hub by means of screws passing throughinterior lugs of said sand-band into the end of a the hub, allashereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, theletter a designates a wheel-hub, and bthe back end thereof, to which is secured, by means of pins,

screws, or other common fastening, a circumscribing collar-band, c, therim-wall of which projects beyond the back end of said hub.

(Z represents the sandband, which is of conically-flaring form, and isprovided with internal lugs, e, at its smaller end, said lugs beingperforated to receive screws 9, which pass into the back end of the huband serve to secure the sand-band thereto. The sand-band is seated inplace by .insertingits smaller end within the collar-band and forcing ithome against the end of the hub, thereby bringing its middle portioninto close contact with the rim h of the collar-band, the circular spanof which should be such that it will fit the outer I EUGENE s ILAssUTToN.

Witnesses:

J OHN KELLEY, J r. WILL J. Norr.

